ROBINSON: High court willing to stack the deck

3:25 PM,
Apr. 24, 2014

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EUGENE ROBINSON

WASHINGTON Affirmative action has opened doors for disadvantaged minorities and made this a fairer, more equal society. The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts apparently wants no more of that.

This week's big ruling - upholding a Michigan state constitutional amendment that bans public universities from considering race in admissions - claims to leave affirmative action alive, if on life support. But the court's opinion, ignoring precedent and denying reality, can only be read as an invitation for other states to follow suit.